14th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza

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14th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza

Viva Las Vegas Baby!

JEFFERSON- The Jefferson Texas Pulpwood Queen Book Club will host the 2014 book festival January 16 – 19, 2014, at The Cypress Valley Alliance Convention Center, located at 120 E. Austin (across from the Jefferson General Store) in Jefferson, Texas 75657. This year the theme is “Viva Las Vegas, Baby!” celebration of the 14th Anniversary. Featuring over 50 Authors including dinner served to participants by authors on Thursday night. Each day participants and the public are welcome to stop in the vendors area to buy books and other fashionable items.

Pulpwood Queen V.I.P. Packages for members are $350 and for non-members $450. To purchase, call 903-601-2725 or email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com and leave me a message on how to contact you. We accept all major credit cards.

The Knightlight Theater located one block from the convention center on Walnut Street will be the OFFICIAL Pulpwood Queen Headquarters for you to go have a glass of wine and relax and talk with friends. Show your V.I.P. band and receive a Free Knightlight Theater wine glass with your first wine purchase and good for one time only. But they will keep your glass ready for you for each visit!, www.theknightlighttheater.com!

All authors featured at their times will immediately go to AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLE in our VENDOR/BOOK STORE ROOM following their panel. Attendees will need to pre-purchase books prior to having the books signed. As all authors are encouraged to participate in all activities, feel free to ask for books to be signed by those authors throughout the weekend. But do note, some authors will not be able to stay, alas…. To ensure you get your books signed, go immediately to the AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLES after they speak and have books already pre-purchased.

That Bookstore in Blytheville, an independent bookstore in Blytheville, Arkansas, will provide the BOOK STORE for all the author books for the event.

Also we will have VENDORS, (open 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.), Friday and Saturday that will feature the BEST of the BEST SHOWCASED for our book loving attendees.

A SILENT AUCTION will be held with showcased items signed and donated by all our authors at the front REGISTRATION BOOTH area. 50% of all proceeds from the SILENT AUCTION will go to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library Literacy Project, The Pulpwood Queens Book Club endorses this literacy project as our charity of choice. and to our other literacy promoting endeavors. All authors featured donate a signed object that ties in with their books for this literary promoting fundraiser.

All nighttime events will be B.Y.O.B. but we will provide the setups.

FRIDAY MORNING 8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION

9:00 a.m.

KATHY L. MURPHY, (formerly Patrick), founder of The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, Author of The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life will CO-HOST with AD HUDLER, author of Southern Living, Househusband, and Man of the House.

9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

Welcome to Girlfriend Weekend VIVA LAS VEGAS STYLE!

KEYNOTE SPEAKER and Author, JAMIE FORD, will speak of his latest book, SONGS of WILLOW FROST: A Novel, Ballintine Books!

1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. GLORIA LORING, star of Days of Our Lives and author of Coincidence Is God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous: Reflections on Daytime Dramas and Divine Intervention, Health Communications, Inc.

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE

2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

SUSAN CRANDELL of Whistling Past the Graveyard, Gallery Books

ARIEL LAWTON of The Wife, The Maid, The Mistress: A Novel,

BECKY AIKMAN of Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives, Crown Publishing

SHELLIE RUSHING TOMLINSON of Heart Wide Open

3:30 p.m. Break, as we know it gets crazy towards the end to rush out and get ready for the ball. It’s almost your last chance to buy books if you want to get them signed before the closing panel and Awards Presentation! Don’t miss this opportunity to purchase the authors books while they are still at the convention center. Our Book Store will be open too after Awards Ceremony!

3:45 p.m. – 4:15 P.M

CHRISTA ALLEN of The Edge of Grace, Abingdon Press

CAROL CASSELLA of Gemini: A Novel, Simon & Schuster

ANN HITE of The Storycatcher, Gallery Books

LAST BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING/VENDOR/BOOK STORE

4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Awards Presentation as follows:

Pulpwood Queen Children’s Book of the Year

Pulpwood Queen Bonus Book of the Year

Pulpwood Queen Book of the Year

KATHY L. MURPHY to present The KAT Award

Special Presentation: THE DOUG MARLETTE AWARD presented to an individual for the Lifetime Achievement of Promoting Literacy.
Silent Auction winners announced. Each author will be present to present each winner of the highest bid his or her signed personal item. Please if you are a winner be prepared to pick up and pay at this time with cash or check, payable to: The Pulpwood Queens Book Club, BEFORE you pick up your winning bid item!

5:15 p.m. Time to Say Goodbye…

Final remarks from KATHY L MURPHY as we conclude our weekend’s presentation of AUTHORS!

VENDOR/BOOK STORE ROOM Closes at 6:00 p.m.

SATURDAY EVENING 8:00 p.m.- All our VIVA LAS VEGAS BABY costumed Party Attendees and Authors will be formally introduced this year as they enter for our “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL! Come dressed as your favorite Vegas or Book Theme character to compete for BEST VEGAS THEMED GIRL GROUP, BEST VEGAS THEMED TABLE DECORATING CONTEST, And BEST INDIVIDUAL MALE/FEMALE VEGAS THEMED COSTUME FOR TIMBER GUY OF THE YEAR AND HAIR BALL QUEEN! Have your cameras ready!

9:00 p.m. VIVA LAS VEGAS……Our “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL will feature you favorite DJ MADELEINE PATRICK playing her favorite VEGAS numbers for dancing with our stars, all our authors in attendance. A smorgasbord of dee-vine inspired feast of appetizers will be served and set ups provided for B.Y.O.B.!

For more information on any of the above information, please email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com or call Beauty and the Book at 903-601-2725. We accept all major credit cards. Pulpwood Queen Packages can be picked up at Registration booth when you arrive!

All information above could be subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control. For the latest updated version of the program, please email anytime Kathy at thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com for the most up to date version of the program or go to my Kathy L. Murphy (formerly Patrick) Facebook page where updates will be posted.